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REVIEWING LAST MONTH’S RANSOMWARE

There was a lot more ransomware activity in November compared to the previous

month. The infamous ACCDFISA Trojan literally rose from the ashes after years of hiatus.

A destructive specimen called Ordinypt was wreaking havoc in Germany with attacks

leading to irreversible loss of data. Another city suffered the consequences of a defiant

crypto onslaught. The highlights below will give you a better idea of how things went on

the ransomware battlefield last month.

Nov. 30, 2017. A ransomware strain called ACCDFISA v2.0 is spreading on a large

scale in Brazil. Its legendary prototype emerged at the dawn of the cyber extortion

plague back in 2012. It was a screen locker and file encoder pretending to emanate from

Anti Cyber Crime Department of Federal Internet Security Agency that doesn’t even
exist. Present-day crooks have reanimated the culprit in this new campaign.

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